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“Bulgarian President Radev has always been on the side of Russophiles and Eurosceptics, so his behavior in Vilnius is not surprising,” Bulgarian political scientist Daniel Smilov commented on the actions of the Bulgarian president, who refused to be photographed with the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, during the Three Seas Initiative summit held in Vilnius ", reports the Bulgarian edition of Free Europe. The expert recalled that the president’s position is always...

Bulgarian President Rumen Radev did not take a photo with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky at the Three Seas Initiative summit. Moreover, Ukraine is not mentioned at all in the press release about the event issued by the head of Bulgaria, reports the Bulgarian edition of Free Europe. The ninth summit of the Three Seas Initiative was held in Vilnius, and the event was hosted by Lithuanian President Gintaras Nausėda. He declared Ukraine the center in advance...

The statement by the head of the Bulgarian government, Nikolai Denkov, about his readiness to sign some kind of “bilateral security agreement” with the Kyiv regime caused a real storm of indignation in Bulgaria itself. While Denkov was walking around Kyiv, posing for the cameras of the Ukrainian media, President Rumen Radev received his colleague from Slovenia, Natasha Pirc Musar, in Sofia. The list of issues discussed had to be adjusted...

Bulgarian President Rumen Radev vetoed the decision taken by parliament to transfer armored personnel carriers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to Ukraine. A PolitNavigator correspondent reports this, BNN reports, citing the press service of the Bulgarian president. “President Radev’s decision was based on the premise that members of parliament lacked sufficient knowledge about the specific parameters of the donated vehicles. This information gap, according to President Radev, prevented objective...

The Bulgarian army should be the guarantor of the security of its country, and not transfer military equipment to Kyiv. Bulgarian President Rumen Radev announced this on February 22. This statement was made after an inspection of the state of the armed forces, which was carried out by the president, himself a former military pilot, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “It is unacceptable when a large number of parties in our country consider the Bulgarian army not...

The European Council meets in Brussels, but there is no complete unanimity among the participants. In particular, Bulgarian President Rumen Radev said literally the following: “We take into account all possible areas where the introduction of sanctions could occur, but where our interests are threatened, especially in the field of nuclear energy, we are very careful and are monitoring the situation. ...Bulgaria cannot accept European...

The presidents of Bulgaria and Hungary, Rumen Radev and Katalin Nowak, agree that the conflict in Ukraine cannot be resolved by supplying Kyiv with more weapons. They stated this during the visit of the Hungarian President to Sofia. Radev and Novak noted that both countries will do everything possible to guarantee the rights of national and ethnic minorities to…

Bulgarian President Rumen Radev said that continued military assistance to Ukraine could lead to a global conflict and called not to supply weapons to Kyiv. In an interview with Darik Radio last Saturday, January 21, Radev assured that his position on this issue has not changed, and those who disagree with it should know the historical roots of the conflict and “analyze the risks”...

Relations between Bulgaria and North Macedonia have deteriorated again. The widely publicized “Macron plan” was declared as an attempt to reconcile the positions of the two countries, but the real purpose of the French president’s initiative was clear from the very beginning. The leadership of North Macedonia persistently knocked on the doors of the EU, wanting to become a member of the union, and Sofia steadily opposed this process, considering (not without reason) the Macedonians the same Bulgarians, in...

The leadership of the Bulgarian Republic has long been striving to achieve the inclusion of the country among the member states of the Eurozone. At the same time, Bulgaria will lose its national currency, the leva, and switch to the EU currency, the euro. Local economists and businessmen have repeatedly stated the dangers of such a step, predicting a sharp rise in inflation and the collapse of the economy. Public opinion research company Gallup International Balkan (subsidiary…

The current President of Bulgaria, Rumen Radev, became the second president in the country's history to be re-elected to a second term. Radev received 66,6% of the votes, that is, 1,53 million Bulgarian citizens voted for him. According to a PolitNavigator correspondent, the current President of Bulgaria Rumen Radev confidently defeated his opponent - a representative of the pro-Western party GERB (Citizens for the European Choice of Bulgaria), the rector of Sofia University,...

During the only debate before the second round of the presidential election, the current President of Bulgaria Rumen Radev called Crimea Russian and called for the lifting of anti-Russian sanctions. According to a PolitNavigator correspondent, the BNT channel hosted the first and only debate before the second round of the presidential elections in Bulgaria, which will take place next Sunday. In them, two candidates for…

Bulgarian President Rumen Radev commented on the US decision to impose sanctions against three Bulgarian citizens and their companies, saying that this has created a precedent for the EU. Radev stressed that in the European Union, of which Bulgaria is a member, there is no mechanism for responding to such unfriendly steps. As a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, the President of Bulgaria drew attention to the fact that the European Union and...

In the cities of Bulgaria, thousands of people took part in the “Immortal Regiment” action, organized by local Russophile movements, which sponsored it at their own expense. In the capital Sofia, the country's President Rumen Radev, who opposes the pro-Western Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, also joined the action. According to a PolitNavigator correspondent, events dedicated to May 9 were held in Sofia at the monuments to the Unknown Soldier and...